Fagus Cunninghami, Hooker.

The Victorian and Tasmanian Beech. A magnificent evergreen tree, attaining colossal dimensions, and only living in cool damp rich forest valleys, not rarely 200 feet high. The wood much used by carpenters and other artisans', the myrtlewood of the trade. It requires to be ascertained by actual tests in the forests, whether the allied tall evergreen New Zealand Beeches possess any advantage over ours for forest culture, they are: Fagus Menziesii, Hooker, the Red Birch of the colonists; Fagus fusca, Hook., the Black Birch; Fagus Solandri, Hook, the White Birch. A magnificent beech, Fagus Moorei, F. von Muell. occurs in New England.